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Eyes on the Prize Episode 5 Mississippi: Is This America?, 1963-1964: America's Civil Rights Years

Julian Bond; Orlando Bagwell; Bond, Julian; Bagwell, Orlando

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Video; Streaming Video; Online

Summary

Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.

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Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.